How I Plan To Bust My Stash

Ladies and Gentlemen… my stash:

Now, I know it may not seem like a lot to many people… But to me, little old me who lives in a tiny little bungalow with zero room… It’s a lot of yarn. My little shopping spree at Michaels really put my stash over the edge for me in terms of “holy crap, I have no more room!”. I’m at the point where I will have to buy furniture to hold my yarn. There isn’t anything wrong with that by the way. I just have a hard time justifying buying new “make do” furniture. I know that we’re not going to stay here forever and I REALLY want to buy nice furniture when I can really have a craft room. Not a “well, for now this can be your office, but if we have a baby, it’s gonna be the baby room” room. I just can’t get comfortable in my “office”. That’s why I haven’t put any pictures up or personalized past painting it.

Also, it’s getting really hard to come up with “excuses” as to why I NEED more yarn. I’m not one to hide my purchases from the Hubby, so because of that… I get the “are you kidding me? Don’t you have yarn JUST like that already?!” I don’t usually argue back. Because really, to him… yarn is yarn. He doesn’t understand that feeling you get when you walk into a yarn store and you lock eyes with that one skein of the most perfect blue in the most softest merino ever. He doesn’t understand that to me, yarn is my drug. And you know what… that’s ok. He knows that knitting makes me happy, but at the same time, I can understand his frustration when all he sees are little piles of yarn all over the house.

So… the stash busting. I am officially on a yarn diet, but I have “allowances” :)

• I’m totally allowed to purchase SOCK yarn for the 12 Socks Challenge
• I’m allowed to purchase yarn for gift making if I REALLY dont have something in my stash that “will do”
• I’m allowed to purchase yarn if it’s a ridiculously awesome deal, because then I can play the “I’m saving money” card :)

Now, I have some steps/guidelines for myself so that I can bust through the stash quickly and reach my end goal which is… well, buying more yarn! lol

• Catalogue all your yarn on Ravelry – Done! My Stash on Ravelry
• Pick projects that will use up the bulkier yarn that you have multiple skeins of
• Don’t get overly ambitious with projects. Speed is of the essence!
• If you can’t find something to make for yourself with stash yarn, then think of making something for someone else as a gift or to donate to charity.
• Have fun!!!!

I think that I’ll be able to bust through my stash pretty quickly. I do have my sister’s bday as well as xmas coming up, so I’ll have to be smart about it. My goal is to have 70-90% of my stash knit up by my birthday at the end of October. Cause we all know what I’m gonna ask for right?! :)

My first stash busting project is this shrug using my Stitch Nation Full O’Sheep in black. Originally I wanted to make a Vinelle cardigan but I didnt like how the yarn was knitting up for a cardigan.

Free pattern on Lion Brand site

From there, I’m not sure what I’m going to make :) but I will for sure be working hard over the next little while trying REALLY hard to exercise my butt off for this yarn diet :)